Humblebrag Quotes

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

One of these days I’m going to be surrounded by so many young gifted athletes. There must be something in the water, because everyone’s kid is a prodigy of some kind, except for mine. Gomer is a bit of a lumberer on the soccer field, and when Adolpha practices her ballet, she has the grace of a baby giraffe. They’re so like their mother. I couldn’t be prouder of my little underachievers.

The Senate decreed that vows should be undertaken every fifth year by the consuls and priests for my health.

Persuasion Alert Self-deprecating humor is an acceptable way to brag. Mentioning a moment of boneheadedness at my former company beats the far more obnoxious “I was a high-level manager at a publishing company that had twenty-three million customers the year I left.” The term du jour for this device: humblebrag. So I’m a lousy prognosticator of bestsellers. In retrospect, however, I can explain why the title was not such a bad idea after all. “South Beach” conjures an image of people—you—in bathing attire. It says vacation, one of the chief reasons people go on a diet. The Rodale editors stimulated an emotion by making readers picture a desirable and highly personal goal: you, in a bathing suit, looking great. So

Kevin Hart (@KevinHart4real) I’m watching the UCLA & FLORIDA game in amazement because I performed in the same arena where they are playing now & sold out #GodisGood Hey, let’s not make this about you, eh? Also, if God is real and we have the same one, and a big priority for him is making sure you sell out a show at a college basketball arena, then I want out.

People don’t care about this kind of stuff, ya know? We want self-improvement, not self-knowledge. We want change,” he motioned with his hands in a strange attempt to mock modern-day hipsters' version of change, “But not for any particular reason. We want to do good deeds but only if we can tell others about it. We want all sorts of ideals, not for their own sake, but rather for the sake of appearances. We don’t want knowledge; we want to show others we have knowledge.

Ces gens-là, les profs, il faut les éviter. Ils sont si habitués à s'écouter parler et à se mettre en scène qu'il n'y a rien à faire avec eux. Aucun échange n'est possible. En plus, ils sont champions toutes catégories de l'art subtil du humble-brag: « La semaine prochaine, je ne serai pas disponible. Je serai à San Francisco à me dorer la fraise au soleil après avoir lu ma communication de vingt minutes devant quatre personnes qui ne m'auront pas écouté. J'ai présenté le même texte le mois dernier à Dubaï, à Séoul et à Istanbul. Dans quelques années, je pourrai le publier dans un livre qui va moisir sur les rayons.

Now and then, as I mature and think about myself just a millimeter less, I hope our trip inspired someone to achieve his or her unthinkable. To me, if nothing more ever comes from this journey, I hope that when a child one day achieves his or her dream of becoming a lawyer, professional athlete, etc., they can rightfully say that I had an impact on them. I don't want credit for their accomplishments. I just want someone to say, "That guy made me want to chase my dreams.

Typically, part of being attractive is being skinny. It's just the standard we have created for ourselves for some reason. But here is the thing about people who humblebrag about being too skinny: I have a gut. So does America. So shut up. I know some people genuinely have a hard time putting on weight, but I have no sympathy for them. All I hear when you say that is that you can eat all the doughnuts you want. And all I want in life is that. I want so many of the doughnuts so much of the time.

Timothy Prior (@twestp) getting in shape for no good reason. #habit I have a habit of chasing cupcakes with cigarettes. I do not understand what you are saying.

The anxious positioning Bourdieu had noted could be felt in a tweeted "humblebrag," an attempt to claim cultural capital without looking as if one were doing so.

On the other hand, there are those men and women we all know (celebrities or regular people) who only post amazing shots of their abs or photos where they look accidentally gorgeous, known as #humblebrags (RIP @twittels, who coined that perfect term). No, and pass to those people. I don’t even want to know someone who isn’t barely hanging on by a thread.

looked around, at the whole room of us, primped and styled to the nines, all of us speaking in a similar tone of voice, humble-bragging, or outright bragging, about our latest accomplishments, our exciting new projects. All of us stroking each other’s egos, angling for some connection, some subtle promotion of our individual interests in this silly moneyed charade. I wasn’t any different from the rest of them. Or was I?

Modern society doesn’t have a problem with treating the janitor the same as the CEO. We have a problem with our need to show the world that we treat the janitor the same as the CEO.

Got any nachos left?" I was suddenly starving. "Sorry," Vanilla Joe said. "Served them all." He smiled like the cat eating the canary. "I didn't have any left over. It was lucky I'd made extras. So sad I didn't get a snack afterward." "Epic humblebrag, Vanilla Joe," I said.

For this reason, although our thinking brains tend to consider chronic stress, shock trauma, developmental trauma, and relational trauma to be different things, they all create the same effects in the mind-body system. If they’re so similar in their effects, then why does our culture usually treat them so differently? The short answer is that many powerful and ambitious people have a hard time admitting their mind-body system’s vulnerability. Powerful, high-achieving, and successful people—and the high-status institutions where they work—have no problem acknowledging “stress.” Indeed, we tend to consider “being stressed” to be a badge of honor—the evidence that we’re successful and accomplished. In our collective understanding, “being stressed” means being overworked, overscheduled, extremely busy, and definitely important. It’s just a necessary by-product of being a Master of the Universe. Why else would so many of us boast about how few hours of sleep we got last night? Or how many days have passed since we’ve seen our kids awake by the time we got home from work? Or how many different activities or demands we’re juggling at the same time? Or how many years it’s been since we took a proper vacation—or even a full weekend off? In our culture, we romanticize our stress, even as we whine about it with humble-brags like these.

in a positive light, also known as the humblebrag.4 A Harvard meta-analysis, “Disclosing information about the self is intrinsically rewarding,” found the act “engages neural and cognitive mechanisms associated with reward.”5 In fact, sharing feels so good that one study found “individuals were willing to forgo money to disclose about the self.

This success isn’t unique to her: there’s evidence that people are more interested in hiring candidates who acknowledge legitimate weaknesses as opposed to bragging or humblebragging.

This success isn’t unique to her: there’s evidence that people are more interested in hiring candidates who acknowledge legitimate weaknesses as opposed to bragging or humble-bragging.